Nod, you seem to view things in a very simplistic way dont you?
drive a car in the general direction of trigger happy troops
Maybe you would like to stand a gun at a checkpoint or guard station that is a mess from a previous car bomb? Maybe you wouldn't be scared after seeing the results of your friends blown into small pieces? Maybe you wouldn't be on the wary side if you were actually living this reality instead of sitting on your couch watching it on television like another sitcom?
Maybe,
BUT I DOUBT IT! So easy to call names, so easy to disparage when you haven't even tried to put yourself in their shoes, much less really understood what they have experienced and what they are feeling.
The greatest risk you face is slipping in the bathtub, they risk a terrible death each and every day. It affects them, it interferes with their sleep, is always in the back of their minds. You only concern yourself with the choice of twinkies or hoohoos for a snack.
I know one thing, if I were there, and I had to stand a post, I would always have a finger on the trigger, ready to do whatever was necessary to stay alive.
Those troops you so easily stereotype those professional troops, they are very young men put in a situation that noone should be in. Every day they excercise great restraint, they work to make Iraq a better place, and the large majority of Iraqis know it and appreciate it. You dont see much on the biased news of today about the improvements do you? Nope, but you see each and every unfortunate incident played out and examined in great detail.
The "why" we went to war will be examined and debated for years to come, right or wrong, for good or bad, to find WMD, expel an evil dictator, or as the young hand wringers like to say "for oil". Let history judge with the benefit of retrospection, release of information, and a view of the long term results.
dago
